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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-08
LIVE srocK Markets BY TELEGRAPH.

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winch Is to York day 20 cars Of which IA to New
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Extra steers So $50 l5 Cows and Hsers IS 259s3 20
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sS Common :" Prime Western Lambs 81 ass %
Choice TO Extra s9 0O0s6 30 Canadian LAmos 90
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-08

Youus or middle age.i men suffering from ncr vous
btv mr. other delicate diseases induced speedily
and permanently cured Adgsss Worlds Dnp'n'sry AsdH
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-08

OIL CITY, Penn, Feb 7.-Crdio oiL-Nat!onai Transit
Certificates opened closed at G3s highest price
ga lowest 62L Sales l4sJOOD barrels charters. fsO
barrels coar4nces. 4OG30OO barrels; shipments lOSOio
barrels - barrels
PIrTsBURo, Feb 7.-Petroleum weak and excited. Ma
onal Transit Certificates opened at G3 and closed at CSC
hlghes price, "a lowest, G2A
BRADFORD. Penn, Feb 7.-Crudo Ol-Naonal Transit
Certificates opened at 63 and closed at 63s highest price,
"a lowest price, ca.
TITusvILLE. Penn. Feb. Irrational Transit Certificates
opened tG3a and closed al Csc highest price, "a low
est price, % T.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-08

Tho hugo drastic gripping nckonns pills arc as 1sih9
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-08

EUROPEAN PRODUCE MARKETS
LIVERPOOL Feb 7-Provisiona Bacon. Cumpet35eA
SEA o., Long Clear Middlsa soA ID; saofs SS~S
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-08

SPIRITS OF TURPENrfNE
CuARlEsroy Feb. 7.-Turpcntne Irregular at 80 RS3s*A
SAVANNAH. Feb. 7.-IWpentne nrm AT SIC Dli.
WILMINGTON Feb. 7.-Turpentlne steady 81 80 20.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-08
THE MONEY MARKET.
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE-FEB. q
THE GENERAL LIST
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Actual Sales Closing No
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26

eyes, several having become very near
sighted. The pupils have contracted
and the entire eyeball is diminished in
size. This is accounted for by the
contraction of the eyes while laughing
and the effort required in working or
reading while undergoing an attack.
Very little physical annoyance is caus-
ed the daughters They read and write,
sleep and work without any trouble.
The only thing they seem unable to
do while attacked is TO eat, and that
can be readily understood. Several
grandchildren have been born, and in
all but one instance they we're taken
soon after birth with stated attacks at
the same hours az their parents. OF
course they do not laugh as the older
ones do, but they crow and express all
the signs of baby glee twice day aud
never cry while in that state II the
disease continues IN the new gener-
alton, the laughing family may ulti-
mately become a laughing village
Wilkes Barre Netos Dealer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26
Thinking for Themselves,

1t is hopeful sign when the masses
of the people give evidence that they
are thinking for themselves in matters
political.
In this day of newspapers when ev-
cry individual has an opportunity of
reading the details of every question
of public and political Importance en-
tering into the every day life of the
country, it is no longer possible for the
political demagogue to lead the people
into blind acquiescence in his selfish
plans.
The time has gone by when any
man, no matter how we'll known as a
leader, can assume to think for the
masses, with the expectation that they
will accept his dicta without question.
Once the colored population of this
country knew no political creed except
ing that Which commanded them to
vote the Republican ticket from top
TO bottom with unquestioning faith.
Time was when the laboring clement
of the people read little, because of
small opportunity, and seemed to think
less concerning the vital political ques-
tions which affect their condition so
materially. But the times are changed
in this respect and political results are
changing with them. - Harrisburg
| Patriot.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26
She Took a Sleeper.
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIoNs OF A NERVOUS
WOMAN IN A PULLMAN CAR.

A nervous woman on board a rail
road train, in Missouri, called con-
ductor and said
81 would like so much to take a
sleeper for I've been up three nights,
hand runnin, but am afeerd"
"What are you afraid of, madam ?"
"Wy, Pm afeered that the train
mout run off the track :"
"But will your staying away keep it
on the track
"Wall, do you know hadn't thought
of that? WY, my settin' up here with
my eyes open KANT have the slightest
effect upon the train, can it %
"None that can see.'
"Then, if you was in my place you'd
go in the sleeper an git good nights
rest ?"
81 certainly should"
"Well, / will, but whenever you
think there's any danger of the train
runnnin' off, wy wish you'd have me
called
She went into IT, sleeper About
three hours later willie the conductor
was passing through the train, he
found the woman sitting on the seat
which she had occupied during the
day.
"Why, madam, thought you had
taken sleeper
81 did," she replied, ''but the fetch
taxed train KEEP threatenin' an a
threatenin' to run off the track till l
thought the safest plan would be fur
me to git right out an set here where
ken watch every thing, but do you
know that when got up that fetch.
taxed niger in there had tuck my
shoes and sloped off with EN-? Well,
he had done that very think, an had
the hardest sort OF work gittin' elm
back again, fur the cussed rascal had
put little dab of blackin' on EN- an
wanted to charge me ten cents. l
paid the conductor two dollars for the
shelf-or berth as he calls it, but I
reckon he'll give it back to me in the
.mornin'."
"He won't give back"
"He won't :"
"No.'
"Not IT tell him l am pore Wild
der -
"That won't make any difference. "
"Wall,' bouncing up. "I'll jest go
back there an lay there, waitin' fur
the train to run off, fur I'll be bound if
Pm goin' to be beat out of my money
thater way. Whenever the train starts
to run off you mout call me, an if you
hear an awful rumpus in there you may
know that the cussed nigger is airter
my shoes again, an that | am defend.
in my rights. ."-Arkansa,o Traveller.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26
Extravaganza in Funerals.
HIGH PRICED UNDERTAKES WHO GROW
QUITE RICH THROUGH THE PRIDE
OF TIE POOR.
New York Letter to washington Post.

New York Letter TO Washington Post
The other day as I was passing
through the poorer quarter of the city
| met an uncanny little white hearse,
driven by tough looking citizen who
wore black stove-pipe hat, smoked a
cheap grocery store cigar and diffused
a general air of toughness and rum.
Inside .he hearse was a tiny white cof-
fin that was pitiful to look upon. Ten
carriages followed the hearse and were
filled with Italian laborers dressed in
their blouses and overalls. They
smoked pipes and lolled out of the
windows.
The baby learned from policeman
with whom | fell in conversation, was
exactly one day old His mother was
a ragpicker. The cost of the funeral
was not less than 800. The poor of
New York are the most extravagant
people in the world in the management
of their funerals, though they are reas-
onably careful about other expenditur-
lures. When death occurs the hawks
descend upon the house in focks. The
richest undertakers are in the tenement.
house districts and they have agents
and wires innumerable. Many of them
count their fortunes in six figures,
though they live in squalor and appar-
ent poverty. They own livery..stables,
grog shops and tenement houses, and
every tenant, employee and political
"heeler" is expected to work for the
undertaken who patronizes him. The
manufacturers of notices, wreaths,
shrouds, memorial pictures, wax flow
ers, texts and all the other catchpenny
devices and schemes that hang upon
human woe are in close accord with
the undertaken. They manage to milk
the teat with vengence when they
once begin.
The undertakers extend their lines
across the river and out to Calvary
Cemetery, on the outskirts of Brook
lvn. Here the tenement house dead
are buried, coffin on top of coffin, till
as many as six bodies rest in one grave.
All along the dusty road to the grave
yard are rumshops and beer saloons
mere speculatlons on the part of the
undertakers. Their drivers stop at
these places in turn on the way to and
from the grave, and thus keep business
booming. AS many as one hundred
and fifty funerals day pass over the
Thirty-fourth street ferry on the way
to this burying place of the dead. An
average of ten carriages to funeral,
aud counting four "mourners" and the
driver to each carriage, makes between
seven and eight thousand people day
for the undertakers and their agents
along the line to draw money from.
| When death occurs in the family
of one of the local politicians the funer.
al takes on the air of festival or q
festival or picnic, and the whole ward
turns out to do honor to the dead. TIL,
rich undertakers of New York are
legion in the poorer districts. Uptown
it is the custom to conduct funei all
with extraordinary privacy, and wher
the ceremony can be performed in 6
country house the dead is conveyed ou
of town without any formalities at all
The one idea of poor New York is t.
make a show of the dead, while ricl
New York abhors it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26
In a Photograph Gallery.

A salow -complexioned old lady, ac-
companied by phenomenally unpre-
possessing daughter, recently walked
into an Austin photograph gallery.
"Be you the Photographic man ?"
she inquired.
eyes, man," replied the artist in
plate glass and chemicals, "can | do
anything for you ?"
"No, | reckon not. I'm too far over
the border for you to waste any of
your mechanical genius on me. It's
my darter, Partheny, here, that want
tuck. Can't yer sorter mitigate that
complexion Of hers, and build up that
nose that was broke by fallin' outer a
winder ?"
81 think l can,' replied the artist.
'I've seen picturs of dead loads of
our relations, an I've alters noticed
that the picturs flattered them nightly.
I know enough about the biz to recog-
nize that you have got everything
in your own hands. You kin make a
woman like a jimplecute of the first
water, or a Mrs. Langtry, jest as yer
please. Say, can't yer take in Par
theny's ears few so she won't look
so much like male rabbit o.
"There will be no difficulty in that"
"How about that air squint in her
left eye?'
81 can touch it up with India ink. VI
"What particular pose do you think
best for Partheny's style Of beauty,
full circus or side show :"
"You mean quarter view or profile.
81 guess l do. You see the photo.
graph is goin' to young feller what
put an advertisement in the paper for
correspondents, an Partheny's writin
to him. Now you see it won't hurt
for the pictur to sorter mitergate he
little blemishes. You'll do the fai
thing by Partheny, won't yer I"
Certainly, madam, I'll do my best
"Well, all right, then. Just q
ahead and square them shoulders bacl
jest trife, wipe off them freckles anC
tone down her ears-an' the hair /
won't be red in the pictur, will it :"
"Oh, no, there will be no color show
but black"
"Thats comfort Gracious Par
theny, what would that young ma
think if you sent him an oil paintir
taken from life ! Kin stay in tn
room 7"
20, yes"
| "All right. Strike an attitood, Pa
theny, that won't give yer away, an
well rope in that young man as sur
as you're foot high. ~ IesaS SiJ
ings.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26
BILIOUSNESS,

81 unhesltatingly add my
testimony to the great ben
efits to be derived from Sim
mons Liver Regulator. 1
was afflicted for several years
with disordered liver, which
resulted in a severe attack of
Jaundice. l had good medi-
cal attendance, but it failed
to restore me to the enjoy
ment of my former health.
l then tried the most re-
nowned physicians of Louis
vile, KY, but all to no pur-
pose, whereupon l was iu-
duced to try Simmons Liver
Regulator. l found immedi-
ate benefit from It's use, and
it ultimately restored me to
the full enjoyment of health"
A. II. SHIRLEY, Richmond,
Ky,..."I most cheerfully re-
commend it to all who suffer
from bilious attacks or any
disease caused by a disar-
ranged state of the liver.
w. r. BERNARD, Kansas
City, Mo.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26
Brazilian Doctors.
THEIR CHARGES REGULATED BY THE EsTI
MATED VALUE OF A PATIENTS LIFE,

THEIR CHARGES REGULATED BY THE EsTI-
MATED VALUE OF A PATIENTS LIFE.
The Brazilians are an indolent peo-
pie, and lazily protest against improve
ments which are certain to disturb
their listess ways. Their Emperor,
Dom Pedro, stands alone among living
rulers for the extent of his scientific
attainments, and he devotes himself
with exceptional energy to every
branch of public affairs. He has in
spired some of the leading officials to
initiate his public spirit and energy.
But with the mass OF his subjects he is
not popular. His industry shames their
Incidence their shame irritates IN
stead of stimulating them, and they
murmur against the energetic ruler
who will not let things remain as they
are
Brazilian doctors are as eccentric in
their charges as the people are in their
desire to enjoy the pleasure OF being
let alone. The physicians do not reg
ulate their charges by the time and
labor they have expended in the pa
tient's service, but by the estimated
value of his life, AS this value is de.
termined by the patients income, he,
if he survives, is treated by the doctor
as wreckers treat stranded ship-the
greater the value, the larger the sal
wage. A young English engineer,
while engaged in some work in the
vicinity OF Rio, was attacked by yellow
fever. A doctor of good repute al
tended HIM, and on his recovery de-
manded fee of nine hundred dollars
The young engineer demonstrated and
threatened to appeal to the courts
But friends who had resorted to these
tribunals for redress, advised him &c
have nothing to do with the law. He
acted upon their counsel and paid the
doctors BILL Youths Companion.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26
Predicting Hart's Defeat.
COLONEL ID. C. KELLER SAYS THE REPUB-
LICAN CANDIDATES WILL

LlCAN CANDIDATES WILL
BE DEFEATED.
The Reading Telegram, an evening
paper, prints the following: "Colonel
d. Q. Keller, who year ago was one
of the candidates for place on the re-
publican state ticket, and who recently
signed the presidency of the State liq-
uor league, says that Philadelphia will
give 10000 majority for the democratic
state ticket, and he thinks that there is
little doubt but that the democrats can
defeat both Hart and Williams, unless
the party shall get into bad fao,ional
fight. There are Gays the colonel,
$4,000 German voters in Philadelphia
who have always voted the Republican
ticket. OF these at least three-fourths
will support the Democratic ticket,
and no promises can prevent this. 1t
will be so all over the state, aud the
fact will in a short time be so appar-
ent that no one can have a doubt of it.
How far this detection viii affect the
ticket in Philadelphia cannot be told,
but it is probable that strike will be
made at the republican candidates,
state aud county, and of course if this
be done the local ticket will probably
be defeated also"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26
Silver on Their Shoes.

The workmen in Mexican silver
mines become SO skilful in stealing sill
YER that the owners employ detectives
TO work with them. An owner tells
this story; "One day detective came
to me and said when such and such
men came out TO examine their sandals.
/ had that done. On the bottoms of
the sandals was what appeared TO be
mud, but when IL WIS scraped into q
pan and worked / iound that it ran at
the rate of $4,000 TO the ton. My
miners had plastered thin layer Of
mud from the mine over the leather,
and then sprinkled on The particles of
silver, and over all had put another
layer of mud. They we've working
for 374 cents day and carrying cut
so cents worth Of silver on the sole Of
each sandal
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26

"Pray without seizing,' said con-
vert at services when he found his
fellow mourner's hand in his pocket.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26

Coquelin, the French actor, was
playing in the part of "Annibal'
'L'Aventurie" in provincial town
some little time ago, and when he came
to the scene in which "Annibal" is sup
posed to fall asleep, the actor, who
happened TO be extremely tired that
evening, fell asleep in good earnest
lie slept heavily and snored like bell
ringer. When he took up the local
papers next day he found that, while
praisiDg the performance in general
they all condemned his stimulation Of
the phenomena OF sleep as ridiculously
stacy and unnatural.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26

Farmers should never consider lime
as food for plants, but as very impor-
tant attractive of the soil, to be applied
to correct acldity, to reduce vegetable
matter into humus, to disintegate clay
soils and stiffen sandy ones, aud gen
orally for all purposes for which aka.
lies are used As to the condition Of
the lime when applied, it is of little
Importance whether it is Stacked OF
fresh, the effects will be the same in
the end. The point is to spread it on
the land.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26

1t Ia a wise child that knows which
side OF his bread is oleomargerined.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26
The Agricultural Lie in Bloom,

The Newton Republican tells of a
farmer in Harvey County who pro-
poses to bring suit against the Sante
Fe Railroad company on the ground
that they run their trains so slow as 10
shade his corn and keep it from grow.
ing as tast as it otherwise would. In
Cloud County the railroad company
threaten suit against the farmer if he
plants his corn within half mile Of
the track. Falling corn stalks hav,
already maimed several brakemen who
were on the top OF the cars as they
passed under the shade of the stalks
Miltonoilte (Ran.) Neios.
1t is wise child that knows whicl
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-11

No, the pathos of life is not exhausted in
the sorrows of women; nor is its cruelty al
together the prerogative of men. 1t need
not be told here how merciless are the exac-
tons of social life in our great cities, with
their memorable "must be'sn and 'must
have's,n yet women, whose eyes will over
flow as they talk of the burden of human
sorrow and who honestly believe the law of
love and mercy rules their lives will accept
these killing sacrifices. They feel no COM
junction as they put on graceful costumes
and wraps which express, perhaps, month
of toll, of anxiety, of heartache, and, alasl
even under too great pressure, departure
from strict ideal of honesty Do we not all
know that life is full of wrecks made in this
way-of men each of whom, like Lydgate
in George Eliot's story, starts with pure
white sails on what is to be triumphrl
voyage-no mistakes such as other men have
made-but she who should have been his in
spiration, his star, is his ruinl With her in
exorable needs she is the insenate rock upon
which he is wrecked, and his lofty aspiration
and fair ideal go down fathoms deep in mud
and slime.-Mary Parmele in American
MAGAZINE
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-11

Art should always be based on nature, and
no art is true which does not take nature for
its model A perfect, symmetrical. healthy
woman Of five feet ten inches in height must
comply with the following standard: She
should be l3S pounds at the least, and could
stand up to ten pounds more without injury
to health or artistic perfection The distance
between the tips of her two middle fingers,
when the arms are extended, should be ex-
actly the same as the height, or ten times the
length of her hand, or seven and half times
the length of her foot, or five times the
diameter Of her chest from one armpit to the
other. The distance from the junction of
the thighs to the ground should be the same
as from the former point to the top of the
head. The knee should be exactly midway
from the junction of the thighs to the bottom
of the heel
The distance from the elbow TO the tip of
the middle finger should be the same as from
the elbow TO the middle line of the chest.
From the top Of the head to the chin, with
the head posed naturally, should be the same
as from the level of the chin to the armpits,
or from the heel 70 the tip Of the large toe.
The bust Of woman OF the height named
should be forty-three inches measurement
over the arms, and the waist twenty-four.
The upper part of the arm should be from
thirteen and half to fourteen inches, and
the wrist six inches. The ankle should be six
inches, the calf of the leg fourteen and the
thigh twenty-five. Any woman of the height
mentioned who has these measurements can
congratulate herself on having as perfect a
form as the Creator ever made. OF course
the proportions vary with the height. New
York Mercury.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-11

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